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The mare is attested as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century. [11] Here, King Vanlandi Sveigðisson of Uppsala lost his life to a nightmare (mara) conjured by the Finnish sorceress Huld or Hulda, hired by the king's abandoned wife Drífa. The king had broken his promise to return within three years, and after ten years had ...
Jun 27, 2018 · The story of the mara originated in the Norse Ynglinga saga, a 13 th century saga written by Snorri Sturlson, an Icelandic poet. In the saga King Vanlandi Sveigoisson of Uppsala is killed by a mara which is conjured by the Finnish sorceress Huld, hired by the king’s abandoned wife. “Driva bribed the witch-.
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The word mare comes (through Middle English) from the Old English feminine noun (which had numerous variant forms, including,, and). These in turn come from Proto-Germanic . is the source of Norse, Old: mara, from which are derived Swedish: mara; Icelandic: mara; Faroese: marra; Danish: mare; Norwegian: mare/, Dutch: (Dutch; Flemish: nacht)Dutch; F...
The mare was believed to ride horses, which left them exhausted and covered in sweat by the morning. She could also entangle the hair of the sleeping man or beast, resulting in "marelocks", called ('mare-braids') or ('mare-tangles') in Swedish or and in Norwegian. The belief probably originated as an explanation to the Polish plaitphenomenon, a hai...
Scandinavia
The mare is attested as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century. Here, King Vanlandi Sveigðisson of Uppsala lost his life to a nightmare conjured by the Finnish sorceress Huld or Hulda, hired by the king's abandoned wife Drífa. The king had broken his promise to return within three years, and after ten years had elapsed the wife engaged the sorceress to either lure the king back to her, or failing that, to assassinate him. Vanlandi had scarcely gone to sleep when he complain...
Germany
In Germany, they were known as,, or . German Folklorist Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn records a Westphalian charm or prayer used to ward off mares, from Wilhelmsburg near Paderborn: Such charms are preceded by the example of the Münchener Nachtsegen of the fourteenth century (See Elf under §Medieval and early modern German texts). Its texts demonstrates that certainly by the Late Middle Ages, the distinction between the, the Alp, and the (Drude) was being blurred, the Mare being described as the...
Bjordvand, Harald and Lindeman, Fredrik Otto (2007). Våre arveord. Novus. .Devereux, Paul (2001). Haunted Land: Investigations into Ancient Mysteries and Modern Day Phenomena, Piatkus Publishers.Book: Kuhn, Adalbert. Sagen, Gebräuche und Märchen aus Westfalen und einigen andern, besonders den angrenzenden Gegenden Norddeutschlands. Brockhaus. 1859. 18–22, 191.Pickett, Joseph P. et al. (eds.) (2000). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. .Barešin . Sandra . Mora kao nadnaravno biće tradicijske kulture . Mare as Supernatural Being of Traditional Culture . Ethnologica Dalmatica . 20 . 2013. 39–68 .Batten . Caroline R. . Dark Riders: Disease, Sexual Violence, and Gender Performance in the Old English Mære and Old Norse Mara. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 120 . 3 . 2021 . 352–...Agnieszka . Pieńczak . Polina . Povetkina . 2023 . The Polish Nightmare Being (Zmora) and the Problem with Defining the Category of Supernatural Double-Souled Beings . Folklore . 134 . 1 . 73–90 ....Bjorvand and Lindeman (2007), pp. 719–720.Alaric Hall, 'The Evidence for Maran, the Anglo-Saxon "Nightmares"', Neophilologus, 91 (2007), 299–317, .Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. 2 vols. Bern: Francke, 1959. s.v. 5. mer-.Jan de Vries. Altnordisches etymologisches Wörterbuch. Leiden: Brill, 1961. s.vv. mara, mǫrn.Mares, also known as Nightmares, are evil spirits (or goblins) in Germanic folklore which ride on people's chests while they sleep, bestowing bad dreams ("nightmares"). This said phenomena is attested as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century, but the belief itself is likely to be considerably older. As in English, the name appears in the word for "nightmare" in the Nordic ...
The mare is attested as early as in the Norse Ynglinga saga from the 13th century. [11] Here, King Vanlandi Sveigðisson of Uppsala lost his life to a nightmare (mara) conjured by the Finnish sorceress Huld or Hulda, hired by the king's abandoned wife Drífa. The king had broken his promise to return within three years, and after ten years had ...
Nov 3, 2017 · Most people today who have heard that ‘the Nightmare’ is an actual being in European folklore and not just a certain type of dream-state, associate the being with horses. A mare is indeed a horse—but this interpretation is not correct. The mare of ‘the nightmare’ is a demon; and the word for horse and the word for nightmare derive from a different root.
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Oct 23, 2017 · In Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse, a mara was something known to sneak into people’s rooms at night, plop down on their bodies, and give them bad dreams. When the mare came to visit, the victim would ...
